Articles: emergency-services.
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To assess current emergency medicine faculty scheduling practices, preferences, and recent changes. ⋯ Residency faculty prefer and have moved toward working shorter shifts. They are also working fewer night shifts per month and fewer night shifts in a row.
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Ann. Allergy Asthma Immunol. · Mar 1995
Air quality and the frequency of emergency room visits for asthma.
Atmospheric pollution has been proposed as one of the possible factors responsible for increases in asthma mortality and morbidity. ⋯ We conclude the fluctuations in overall air quality are associated with increased frequency of emergency room visits but only when data are lagged by a predefined period.
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This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate whether an observation unit (OU) attached to the emergency department (ED) of a tertiary care hospital in India is safe, is effective in minimizing hospitalization of acutely ill patients and is acceptable to the patients. Of 115,916 patients who attended the ED, 11,130 (9.6%) were observed in the OU. ⋯ Twenty-four patients left the hospital against medical advice, and three patients died in the OU. It is concluded that an OU in the ED is safe in treating acutely ill patients, is effective in reducing substantially the number of patients requiring admission to the hospital, and is acceptable to the patients.
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Current emergency department management of stroke in Houston, Texas.
This study describes emergency department (ED) management of stroke in Houston, Tex, in 1992 to identify delays and deficiencies in recognition and management of stroke patients in various hospital subtypes and to quantitate the impact of a rapid response stroke team. ⋯ Transport, initial evaluation, and ED care of acute stroke patients are currently slow and often inexpert in all types of hospitals. A stroke team can speed initial ED management.